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Bennelong boutique shuts up shop

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
Just two months on from shuttering its flagship fund, Touchstone Asset Management has closed its doors. As first reported by Financial Standard, the boutique wound up the Touchstone Index Unaware Fund in May. This was largely due to the low funds under ...

Cbus deputy chief executive resigns

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
Cbus deputy chief executive and chief member officer Marianne Walker has stepped down from the super fund. A Cbus spokesperson told Financial Standard Walker will depart in September. "Marianne Walker has decided to leave the fund in early September ...

Goldman Sachs appoints real estate MD

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
A top commercial real estate executive joins the Sydney-based team of the global fund manager. Samuel Green is to rejoin Goldman Sachs as managing director, Goldman Sachs Alternatives. Joining this month, he has been appointed to lead the strategic ...

Australian Ethical PM departs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
Australian Ethical Investment has announced the resignation of portfolio manager Andy Gracey, following 20 years of service, leadership and founding management of its Emerging Companies Fund. Gracey will transition portfolio responsibility to head of ...

Aware Super expands European footprint

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2025
Aware Super has announced it has acquired APG's stake in apartment-hotel owner and operator The July. Having already acquired a stake of the business in July 2020, it is now the majority shareholder. The announcement is a part of the super fund's ...

CBA head of Australian economics steps down

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2025
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) head of Australian economics Gareth Aird has stepped down from the role. Aird was with CBA for 13 years, joining the bank in November 2012 as a senior economist before taking on the head of Australian economics role in April ...

Insurer names interim chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
Adrian Stewart is set to leave Allianz Australia Life Insurance and Allianz Retire+, with an acting chief executive appointed. David Kane, currently chief operating officer, is stepping into the lead role in an interim capacity. Allianz said Stewart ...

Metrics managing partner departs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
Metrics Credit Partners has announced that managing partner Graham McNamara has advised the board of his intention to retire, effective 31 March 2026. Metrics said McNamara's retirement forms part of a "carefully managed" leadership transition plan. ...

Life insurer chief executives step down, successor named

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
Acenda Group is set to welcome a group chief executive, as Kent Griffin and Tim Tez announce their departures. Former Westpac executive Chris de Bruin has been appointed chief executive of Acenda Group, subject to regulatory approvals of the merger ...

Global X scales higher on the ETF issuer podium

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
Global X has climbed the ranks of Australia's largest ETF issuers, overtaking State Street, having vaulted its assets under management (AUM) past the $10 billion mark. Global X chief executive Alex Zaika said the firm has leapfrogged State Street and ...